ANNUAL REPORTS. 
159 
Number of Visitors to the Victoria Museum during the 
year 1895. 
January 1st to 30th ... ... ... ... 301 
February 1st to 17th ... ... ... ... 251 
March 1st to 30th ... ... ... ••• ... 250 
April 1st to 30th ... ... ... ... ... 21g 
May 1st to 31st ... ... ... ... ... 196 
June 1st to 29th ... ... ... ... ... 86 
July 1st to 31st ... ... ... ... ... 143 
August 1st to 30th ... ... ... ... 181 
September 1st to 30th ... ... ... ... 173 
October 1st to 10th ... ... ... ... 60 
November 1st to 30th ... ... ... ... 194 
December 1st to 30th ... ... ... ... 305 
Total ... ... 2,353 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1898, 
T HE Board of Management has the honour to lay before the 
members the following Report of the working of the 
Institute for the year 1896. 
An earnest attempt has been made during the year to 
increase the usefulness of the Institution. 
No change was made in the membership of the Board or of 
its Officers at the last Annual Meeting, which was held on the 
27th of February, 1896, and the paid staff has remained the 
same. 
Owing to the temporary absence of an unusually large 
number of members of the Board, on the 30th June the remaining 
members, acting in accordance with Section 7 of the Articles of 
Association, appointed the following gentlemen to act : — 
Mr. B. H. Stephens, 
„ R. H. McCarthy, 
Dr. Ince, 
Mr. J. R. Llanos, 
„ J. R. Murray. 
